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Bunches of Recycle Bins

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by wahlroot, 2006/03/20.

  1. 2006/03/20
    wahlroot

    wahlroot Inactive Thread Starter

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    I found a folder on C: called Recycler which had 7 Recycle Bins, each with an S and a bunch of numbers.
    S-1-5-21-2035105212-2823517708-1617858588-1011
    S-1-5-21-2302810391-1689209916-859664480-1011
    S-1-5-21-2302810391-1689209916-859664480-1012
    S-1-5-21-2780465479-21804243229-1811931382-1011
    S-1-5-21-2780465479-21804243229-1811931382-1013
    S-1-5-21-2780465479-21804243229-1811931382-1014
    S-1-5-21-530505910-1971352451-4174991435-1013
    I moved this folder to the desktop and now have a Recycler on C: with a bin named.
    S-1-5-21-2780465479-21804243229-1811931382-1011
    I also have a Recycler on my E: partition with the same name.
    When there is a file in my regular Recycle Bin, it shows in each of the other Recycler bins. Empty the Recycle or Recycler Bins and it also empties all bins. I hope someone can tell me if this is normal, and do I need to worry about it.
     
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    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni

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    Hello wahlroot,

    You should have a Recycle bin for each partition. Its a hidden system file, normally not seen. The one on C "sees" all the others and emptying the one on C will empty the others.

    You have two recycle bins, one for C and one for E. The "S" items are the permenant contents in them. Don't really know what they are.

    You can configure them globally or independantly.

    I dual boot, so my situation is a little more complicated than your's.

    Regards - Charles
     
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    Miz

    Miz Inactive Alumni

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    "Each Windows disk contains a hidden folder named Recycled (FAT/FAT32), or Recycler (NTFS). This folder is where Windows 9x and Windows NT/2000 keeps deleted files.

    When a user deletes a file, the complete path, file name and date of deletion is stored in a hidden file called INFO or INFO2 (Windows 98/2000) in the Recycled/Recycler folder. The deleted file is renamed, using the following syntax:

    D<original drive letter of file><#>.<original extension>

    Example:
    New file name:
    Dc1.txt = (C drive, second file deleted, a .txt file)
    INFO file path:
    C:\Windows\Desktop\Cards.txt

    Each Windows drive will contain a Recycled/Recycler folder upon the first file deletion. "
    Source.

    There is one, usually hidden, subfolder for each user account.

    On the other hand, there's only one user on my computer but there are two subfolders in the Recycler folder. I can only guess that the second one was created when I created a second user account to test something or other. I deleted the account but its Recycler folder lives on. My other guess is maybe the main Administrator account has its own Recycler subfolder.
     
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    charlesvar

    charlesvar Inactive Alumni

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    Thanks Miz, that makes sense. I have two users - the default Admin and mine, every system is going to have at least two I think.

    Regards - Charles
     
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    Welshjim

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    Just adding less than 2¢ to what has already been said, it is my understanding that each S-1-5-21*** folder represents a different user when the *** are different numbers.
     
  7. 2006/03/20
    wahlroot

    wahlroot Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have Rescycle Bin set Independently to set my Jump Drive Recycler to 0 size.
    I go to Control Panel, User Accounts2, and find the following.
    Administrator Administraters
    ASPNET Users (whatever that is)
    Guest Guests
    ME Administraters; Users
    OURS Administraters; Users
    Wahlroot Administraters; Users
    Only the last one is used. The last four are shown in User Accounts with Guest Account off.
    Google of ASPNET shows this as Microsoft's dynamic website technology. Do not do web sites, so I do not know why it is here.
     
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